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To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

rity or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.

That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

One who demands.

A woman who demands.

A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

See Gormand, n. [Obs.]

Gluttony.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

See Dodman. Bacon.

Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n.

Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space.

Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.

The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.